Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
CodeColorer
Active installs1,000+ rounded
Current authorDmytro Shteflyuk
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release23 days ago 15 Aug 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record35
Rating4.9 /5 · 11
Added to directory09 Apr 2007
Requires WP4.0
Requires PHP7.0
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1 up to date
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Ownership
Held by Dmytro Shteflyuk throughout, with no change of ownership observed since daily tracking began on 02 Aug 2026.
Full observed history, including every field transition
Committing accounts
Read from the plugin’s public release log, so these predate this registry. A committing account is not an owner. Thirty accounts commit to WooCommerce and it has never changed hands.
| Account | Releases | First | Last |
|---|---|---|---|
| kpumuk | 34 | 10 Apr 2007 | 14 Mar 2026 |
This registry did not observe a transfer; it read these names off a public log. Whether that reflects a change of ownership is not something the directory publishes.
Adoption
How widely the plugin is installed, and what the people running it think of it. WordPress.org rounds install figures to one significant digit, so they describe an order of magnitude rather than a headcount.
Moderately adopted: 1,000+ active installs. A real user base, well short of the ecosystem’s larger plugins.
17 downloads a day over the last 7 days, steady against the 7 days before. Downloads are counted exactly and without a ceiling, so they show movement the rounded install figure cannot.
08 Aug 2026peak 358/day06 Sep 2026
Daily record
Every field we record, one column per observation. Fields that never moved are named once rather than repeated across every column. A row of identical numbers would be padding.
| Field | 24 Aug | 25 Aug | 26 Aug | 27 Aug | 28 Aug | 29 Aug | 30 Aug | 31 Aug | 01 Sep | 02 Sep | 03 Sep | 04 Sep | 05 Sep | 06 Sep |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 12 | 11 | 33 | 22 | 12 | 0 | 22 | 11 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 11 | 11 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (11) · active installs (1,000+) · version (0.12.0) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)
36 days of observation, most recent 14 shown.
Maintenance
When it was last released, and how far its declared compatibility has drifted from current WordPress.
Added to directory19 years ago 09 Apr 2007
Requires WP4.0
Requires PHP7.0
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 15 Aug 2026, 23 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1, which is current.
- The same account maintains 2 other plugins, and none has been updated in over a year, the most recent on 30 Jul 2009.
A plugin that does one thing correctly may need no changes for years; a long gap is not, by itself, evidence of neglect.
History
Everything dated that this registry holds about the plugin, most recent first. Releases carry the author’s own release date; everything else is dated to when it was observed.
Entries marked from the release log predate this registry, and daily observation began 02 Aug 2026. They were read from the plugin’s public SVN history after the fact, not watched as they happened. Everything else was observed directly.
- 15 Aug 202623 days agoVersion 0.12.0 released
- 02 Aug 20261 month agoFirst observed by PluginPediaDaily snapshots of this plugin’s directory record begin here. Everything above this line is observed; anything before it comes from fields the API itself reports.
- 14 Mar 20266 months agoVersion 0.11.0 released
- 12 Mar 20266 months agoVersion 0.10.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by kpumuk.
- 29 May 20233 years agoVersion 0.10.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by kpumuk.
- 29 Apr 20233 years agoVersion 0.10.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by kpumuk.
- 23 Jul 20188 years agoVersion 0.9.16 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by kpumuk.
- 25 Feb 20188.5 years agoVersion 0.9.15 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by kpumuk.
- 25 Oct 20178.5 years agoVersion 0.9.14 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by kpumuk.
- 24 Oct 20178.5 years agoVersion 0.9.13 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by kpumuk.
- 12 Oct 20178.5 years agoVersion 0.9.12 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by kpumuk.
- 09 Aug 20179 years agoVersion 0.9.11 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by kpumuk.
- 29 Jul 20179 years agoVersion 0.9.10 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by kpumuk.
- 28 Apr 201115 years agoVersion 0.9.9 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by kpumuk.
- 23 Mar 201016 years agoVersion 0.9.8 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by kpumuk.
- 10 Apr 200719 years ago21 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 10 Apr 2007 and 19 Dec 2009. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 09 Apr 200719 years agoAdded to the WordPress.org directoryReported by the plugin API as the date this plugin was added.
What we know, and what we don’t
Everything on this page in one place, including the gaps, so that nothing here is mistaken for a clean bill of health.
What we know
- It has been held by Dmytro Shteflyuk for all 36 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 23 days ago (15 Aug 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports 1,000+ active installs.
- It carries 11 ratings, averaging 4.9 out of 5.
What we don’t know yet
- No forum threads were open in the two months we measure, so how responsive its support is cannot be said. One new thread starts answering that.
Every record on this site, this one included, works under the same limits. We read what WordPress.org publishes about a plugin, never the plugin’s own code, so nothing here says whether a plugin is well built or safe. Install counts reach us already rounded; a change smaller than a band step doesn’t show. We don’t track security advisories yet. For anything older than our first observation we rely on the plugin’s public release log, where one exists. What this registry can and cannot see
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